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When Can a Woman Who Kills Her Abuser Claim Self-Defense?
newyorker.com

How we know global warming is real
washingtonpost.com

In Oregon, Archaeologists Found Evidence of Children Learning to Hunt
atlasobscura.com

These are the stars the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft will encounter
technologyreview.com

Why WeWork went wrong
theguardian.com

The origin of the world’s first travel blog
bbc.com

Inside the RCMP’s cross-country manhunt for 2 teenage killers
cbc.ca

New episode of the Damn Interesting Week podcast: Donkey Mare Juice
damninteresting.com

IBM Research Created a New Battery That Outperforms Lithium-Ion
gizmodo.com

Do human beings have a breeding season?
theconversation.com

Slanted Toilets Are the Logical Extreme of Hyperproductivity
theatlantic.com

Could quantum molecules form a new periodic table?
inverse.com

The Pope Who Wrote an Erotic Novel
narratively.com

Death in the alps
1843magazine.com

Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes
quantamagazine.org

This Siberian Subway System Has Just One, Non-Functional Station
atlasobscura.com

Boeing is about to launch its Starliner crew spacecraft for the first time
technologyreview.com

China’s Trackless Trains
amusingplanet.com

Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
nytimes.com

NASA Will Be Building a Quiet, Supersonic Aircraft: the X-59
universetoday.com

How to Discover a Galaxy with a Telephoto Lens
nautil.us

Sorry for the delay today, our human link curator is rather under the weather
damninteresting.com

How Disney’s ‘Community of Tomorrow’ Became a Nightmare
thedailybeast.com

How Crisco toppled lard – and made Americans believers in industrial food
theconversation.com

Döllersheim: The Village That Hitler Destroyed to Crush a Rumor
amusingplanet.com

Three species of early humans lived in same era in close proximity
smh.com.au

Moscow has registered the warmest December weather in over a century
rte.ie

Liftoff for Cheops, ESA’s exoplanet mission
esa.int

Investors Want to Exhume Body of Crypto-CEO Who Had the Password to Millions In Bitcoin
gizmodo.com

Researchers Explore A Drug-Free Idea To Relieve Chronic Pain: Green Light
npr.org

Earth has had more major mass extinctions than we realized
nationalgeographic.com

Deep-Sea Mining and the Race to the Bottom of the Ocean
theatlantic.com

Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Has Officially Moved (Toward Russia)
forbes.com

‘What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out.’
washingtonpost.com

Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis [in worms]
nautil.us

A Brief History of Tiny Nuclear Reactors
popularmechanics.com

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Greek Royal Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years
npr.org

Researchers create functional mini-liver by 3D bioprinting
agencia.fapesp.br

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of pain
nationalgeographic.com • (see also)

How police got the Canadian behind the world’s biggest child porn site
newsinteractives.cbc.ca

Soldier of (Mis)fortune
crimereads.com

The Volatile Economics of Natural Vanilla in Madagascar
bloomberg.com

Why killer whales—and humans—evolved menopause
arstechnica.com

Feeling sick is an emotion meant to help you get better faster
theconversation.com

The Largest Scientific Structure Ever Powers Up in Africa
wired.com

Why (and How, Exactly) Did Early Humans Start Cooking?
lithub.com

A Sea Lily Fossil in Utah Just Solved an Evolutionary Mystery
atlasobscura.com

Kids don’t trust the internet to give the right answer
cbc.ca

Asthma severity linked to microbiome of upper airway
sciencedaily.com

The little-known US-Canada border war
bbc.com • (see also)

DNA from Stone Age ‘chewing gum’ tells an incredible story
nationalgeographic.com

Epilepsy Foundation Was Targeted in Mass Strobe Cyberattack
nytimes.com

Pakistan sentences former dictator to death in treason case
abcnews.go.com • (see also)

Audiovisual interactive: Among the World’s Most Dire Places: This California Homeless Camp
nytimes.com

How trillions of microbes affect every stage of our life—from birth to old age
nationalgeographic.com

The Rise and Fall of an All-Star Crew of Jewel Thieves
theatlantic.com

The Amazing Math Inside the Rubik’s Cube
popularmechanics.com

Video: Gastrotrichs: Four Day Old Grandmothers [10:32]
youtube.com

Fossilized Brains Found in Ancient Bug-Like Creatures
livescience.com

The Biggest Junk Science of 2019
realclearscience.com